Monday, August 23, 2010

Dundee Community Garden This Week - August 22

Hello Dundee Community Gardeners and Friends,

NO HARVEST NIGHT THIS MONDAY AUG. 23   We're holding back on our produce this week so that we can sell it at our table at Dundee Day, this Saturday Aug. 28.

HARVEST NIGHT WILL BE HELD FRIDAY AUG. 27 at 6 p.m.  We'll be harvesting for Dundee Day.

CAN WE PICK FROM YOUR PLOT???  
Let us know if we can pick some ripe produce from your plot Friday evening that we can sell at Dundee Day.

DUNDEE DAY PARADE SAT. AUG. 28 at 10 a.m.   We'd love a crowd to march with us in the parade!  Bring yourself and any extra family members you can corral.  We need people to carry our paper-mache carrot, our banner, etc.  We'll be meeting in the Brownell-Talbot parking lot off Underwood Ave. at 10 a.m.  The parade starts at 10:30.   Apparel: wear a Dundee Community Garden t-shirt, or anything that suggests gardening, or be creative and dress up like a vegetable!  (Note: if you want to purchase a DCG t-shirt for $15 to wear in the parade, contact Eric at mrerlo@gmail.com).  Come march with us-- the more the merrier!

EXTRA PRODUCE  If you have extra produce, or cutting flowers, that you'd be willing to donate to out Dundee Day booth, please drop them off on Saturday at the booth. Or you can bring them to the harvest night Friday evening Aug. 27.

BOARD MEETING TUESDAY:
 Our next board meeting, open to all members, is Tues. Aug. 24, 7 p.m. at Dundee Presbyterian.  We're usually in the basement dining room.  We'll be making signs for the table on Saturday as well as finalizing plans for the booth, etc.

VOLUNTEER HOURS: 
Just a reminder that we're expecting each plot owner to contribute 8 hours towards working in the garden on the community plots.  We'll be posting a chart soon to track volunteer hours at the garden.  If you have volunteered some hours that have not been recorded in the red volunteer notebook, shoot me an e-mail at megreen4@cox.net to let me know how much time you've contributed.  

 
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Other gardening news: 

SUSTAINABLE FARM TOUR THURS. AUG. 26, 7 pm :  Join Sierra Club members and friends for a tour of a small sustainable organic farm.  Rhizosphere Farm in Waterloo is a "certified naturally grown" farm, owned by Terra Sorenson and Matt Hall. The tour will show us the greenhouse where the seedlings are started, the out-building, used for washing crops and prepartion for market, and of course the fields wehre the owners practive intensive growing of heirloom crops.  The tour will be preceded by an optional pot-luck at 6 p.m. More information at http://sierranebraska.org  

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